Stories of Startups' Early Days
by Jessica Livingston
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Recommended by 8 notable people, including Paul Graham and Ryan Holiday
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Now available in paperbackwith a new preface and interview with Jessica Livingston about Y Combinator!Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days is a collection of interviews with founders of famous Technology, companies about what happened in the very earliest days. These people are celebrities now. What was it like when they were just a c...
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Recommended by 13 sources and appears in Best Startup Books, Books Recommended by Paul Graham, and Books Recommended by Ryan Holiday.
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Consider The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz. Recommended by 60 sources.
“A blunt, conversational tour through the worst parts of building a company. Horowitz shares personal stories from his own startup failures and recoveries, offering practical wisdom on layoffs, pivots, CEO loneliness, and managing when times are bad. The value is in the honest, experience-based insight you won't get from business school. The limitation is its narrow focus on venture-backed tech startups—if you're not in that world, some advice may feel irrelevant. Reads like a wise mentor telling you what nobody else will.”
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